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Well, on the other hand, forcing spammers to pay money (in your case it's $106, even if it sounds like a racket) is the most effective way to battle spam. That'
by deepsun 9y ago
Well, on the other hand, forcing spammers to pay money (in your case it's $106, even if it sounds like a racket) is the most effective way to battle spam. That's the price you pay for neglecting your information security.
I would even make the price higher, so people would pay more attention to their information security practices. Like, sorry dude, if you're hacked -- it's your problem, not problem of all the innocent people who received the spam from your hacked accounts.
Once the fees become higher, there will be insurance plans for it, and insurance companies will require some basic level of security controls. There are already talks about it in IoT community.
It really annoys me when people think it's someone else to blame when they neglect their own information security and get hacked.
- PakG1 9y agoI see that it's still really easy for people to make judgment on what happens to others without knowing all the details. It really annoys me when random stranger know-it-alls proclaim all the answers that are already obvious and tried, acting as if others are incompetent. Never mind that I clearly stated that I was most annoyed with the blacklist that was a meta list riding the coattails of other blacklists, more than the blacklist that wanted payment anyway. > It really annoys me when people think it's someone else to blame when they neglect their own information security and get hacked. Seriously, when did I ever say it's someone else to blame? It also really annoys me when people put words in other people's mouths. Finally, if you knew anything about maintaining live systems, you'd know that technical issues are the smallest and easiest concern to handle when protecting infrastructure.